Mapping of Mesoscale and Submesoscale Wind Fields Using Synthetic Aperture Radar

Abstract

The long-term goal of this research effort is to investigate the possibility of obtaining quantitative information about the near-surface wind field and perhaps other parameters that characterize the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer (MABL) from an analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. Because of its potential for yielding such information at high horizontal resolution, this application of SAR would represent a significant advance over most scatterometer and passive microwave sensors that yield only coarse-resolution estimates of the wind field.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA628207

Entities

People

  • Donald R. Thompson
  • Robert C. Beal

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Boundary Layer
  • Data Sets
  • Detectors
  • Electronic Mail
  • High Resolution
  • Measurement
  • Microwave Detectors
  • Military Research
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Remote Sensing
  • Scatterometers
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Websites
  • Wind
  • Wind Direction

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Radar Systems Engineering.